"Peace was declared, but not all of us……" — George Grosz
"Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind."
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George Grosz
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21 Quotes by George Grosz
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How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy…
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The…
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an…
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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless…
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I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
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When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in…
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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to…
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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on…
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the…
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can…
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I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage…
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It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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